Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet switching technology helped to lay the foundation for the Internet, has died at the age of 84. Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet ...

As the Internet transitions from a best-effort network to a strategic global IP infrastructure, demands will not only be for higher bandwidth, but also for a wider range of integrated services ...

As we mentioned last time, there was an entire industry built around using TDM bandwidth efficiently due to the compelling economics of building corporate private-line networks. By the late 1980s, ...

Paul Baran, one of the inventors of the packet switching technology that underpins all internet traffic, has died aged 84. Baran passed away on Saturday at his home in Palo Alto, California, following ...

Verizon Communications announced a deal with Nortel Networks on Tuesday, the latest carrier moving to add packet-switching technology to its voice network. Other carriers are also slowly moving toward ...

An efficient means of routing and transferring data over a network by breaking it up into very small pieces (packets). Each packet is addressed to its destination, like pieces of mail in a postal ...

The New York Times and dozens of media around the county are reporting on the death of Drexel alumnus Paul Baran, an engineer who helped create the technical underpinnings for the Arpanet, the ...